How to Use piece by piece in a Sentence

piece by piece

adverb

• Place the kindling piece by piece in a tipi shape over the flames.
  — Jim Baird, Field & Stream, 1 Oct. 2020
• For Wright and his staff, the work goes on — painstaking piece by piece.
  — Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 19 Nov. 2020
• So this was a way of me sort of finding my way through it piece by piece.
  — Eric Johnson, Recode, 15 Dec. 2018
• Shrapnel from the missile was laid out neatly on the side of the road, piece by piece.
  — Ellen Francis, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2022
• Once finished, the lettuce is placed piece by piece in a mound on a long plate.
  — Daniel Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2024
• The other option would be to take it down piece by piece, starting at the top.
  — Segann March, The Enquirer, 27 Oct. 2020
• Take a deep breath and try to figure things out piece by piece instead.
  — Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 28 Aug. 2021
• The Italian approach is to make ready-to-wear and bespoke in the same fashion, piece by piece.
  — Alexander Freeling, Robb Report, 7 July 2022
• The college raised money to bring the church over the Atlantic Ocean, piece by piece, in the mid-1960s to be remodeled.
  — Mike and Wendy Pramik, cleveland, 7 July 2022
• The core of Stanton, Gordon, Ozuna and Yelich was sold off piece by piece for prospects.
  — Dan Gartland, SI.com, 20 Mar. 2018
• Since then, she's been making her house with Scott into a home, piece by piece.
  — Dave Quinn, Peoplemag, 2 Aug. 2023
• Mara ate hers piece by piece, plucking each one like a jewel.
  — Emma Cline, The New Yorker, 24 June 2019
• Might get to the rest, piece by piece, as a recurring segment in issues to come.
  — Vulture, 3 May 2023
• The cost of demolishing the pier piece by piece would be at least $15 million.
  — Matier & Ross, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Jan. 2018
• Breaking down a climb piece by piece makes the challenge less daunting.
  — Hayden Carpenter, Outside Online, 1 Oct. 2020
• But Astrid is adept at finding the weak spots in that armor and at tearing it from Thane piece by piece.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 3 Dec. 2019
• With Darnold, the first decision Bates and Todd Bowles had to make was how to teach him the offense, piece by piece or all at once.
  — Jacob Feldman, SI.com, 14 June 2018
• Since then, McGuinness has picked off 100-mile sections of the trail piece by piece with a dog named Atlas.
  — Matt Vasilogambros, Outside Online, 2 Apr. 2020
• Toller is in nearly every shot, and Hawke builds his portrait of a good man, lost, piece by piece.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 24 May 2018
• The artist, Ryan Mendoza, moved it to Germany and reassembled it in his yard, piece by piece.
  — Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2018
• For the past weeks, Hillman has been selling off his beloved bowling palace piece by piece.
  — Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 29 Aug. 2020
• Over 68 years attuned to the Wasatch, Bitter sought to create a life for himself, piece by piece.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Jan. 2022
• On Monday, a one-of-kind steel and glass Menorah was put together piece by piece for the event.
  — Chandra Fleming, Detroit Free Press, 13 Dec. 2022
• As the grievances mounted, piece by piece, year by year, the distinction blurred.
  — New York Times, 26 Mar. 2022
• On the way there, JWST must deploy itself piece by piece.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 1 Dec. 2021
• The cathedral stairway was brought piece by piece from England.
  — Lauren Beale, latimes.com, 22 June 2018
• In like fashion, the whole movie was built up piece by piece, the connections between the pieces known only to Kubrick.
  — Geoffrey O’Brien, WSJ, 12 Apr. 2018
• In the months that followed, a skeleton was recovered piece by piece.
  — Eliot Bush, Scientific American, 27 June 2020
• Westrup, who worked for the state for 37 years, figured out how to put together parcels of land, piece by piece, until a vision came to fruition.
  — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 31 May 2024
• Give Dakota Fanning’s relaxed red carpet look a go — all together or piece by piece.
  — Nicola Fumo, Peoplemag, 15 June 2024

Last Updated: 22 Aug 2024